Gregg,
Have you tried malwarebytes (www.malwarebytes.org)? There's a version that's free for personal use. There are lots of other good anti-malware programs out there but we have found this to be one of the better ones. You may have to download it on another computer and copy it via a USB drive. You might also try renaming the program to hopefully fool the malware on your computer. If you can get it cleaned up, I'd install both an anti-virus and anti-spyware program unless you install one that's supposed to do both. AVG makes a good free anti-virus program. If all else fails, you may need to format the drive and install a fresh copy of the OS, backing up anything you want to keep first. Good luck.
Mark
Mark Seagroves
Dir, Information Technology
Assoc Prof, Computer Science
Carson-Newman College
(865) 471-3506
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-----Original Message-----
From: PCSOFT - Personal Computer software discussion list [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Gregg Pfaff
Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2010 11:49 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [PCSOFT] can't get rid of a redirecting/browser hijacking Virus
It appears the link I was sent contained a virus / malware cocktail...I
still have not found anything that will detect and remove whatever is
hijacking my browsers. I downloaded Mozilla Firefox while in safe mode but
it hijacks that also (when not in safe mode). Maybe it's into my networking?
I can browse anywhere but anti-virus sites unless I'm in safe mode
W/networking. Any Ideas out there? the rest of my computer seems fine and no
viruses or malware are detected.
Gregg
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gregg Pfaff" <[log in to unmask]>
To: "PCSOFT - Personal Computer software discussion list"
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Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 7:41 PM
Subject: Re: [PCSOFT] can't get rid of a redirecting/browser hijacking Virus
> Rob and everyone,
> I forgot to mention that my friend didn't really send it...it got into his
> friends list and sent itself out to all his friends as it did the same
> thing to my friends list. I called and emailed and posted a message to my
> profile to "DON'T CLICK ON IT, I DID NOT SEND IT IT'S A VIRUS" This thing
> also posted itself to my profile which I promptly removed it. Hope nobody
> else clicked on it.
> People who sit around and intentionally write virus's should be caught and
> sentenced to life in prison minimum! But they seldom get caught because
> it's too hard to trace where it originates from I guess?
> Gregg
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Robert Citkowitz" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 1:36 PM
> Subject: Re: [PCSOFT] can't get rid of a redirecting/browser hijacking
> Virus
>
>
> Good luck, Gregg! Sounds bad! But how do you know it came from Facebook?
>
> Rob
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Gregg Pfaff
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 3:57 AM
> Subject: [PCSOFT] can't get rid of a redirecting/browser hijacking Virus
>
>
> I can't seen to remove the remainder of a virus which was picked up on
> facebook. I've tried the windows malicious software removal tool, AVG,
> McAfee, HijackThis, Ad ware, MalwareBytes...etc. Most virus files are
> removed but the problem I still have is it redirects my browser away from
> antivirus sites and wouldn't let me update AVG antivirus database so, I
> downloaded the trial version of McAfee while in safe mode. The redirecting
> doesn't occur while in safe mode. any suggestions before I'm forced to
> reformat and reinstall everything? I'm running XP pro and IE8 on a Dell
> latitude D620 laptop.
> Gregg
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